I’m still playing the same five games regularly: Rakuen Seikatsu Hitsujimura, Genshin Impact (once a week), Love Nikki, Shining Nikki and Another Eden. Apart from Another Eden, they’re all time-gated in some way or another, which means I can’t play them for very long every day. And Another Eden crashes without fail every ten minutes […]
As I’d thought, there’s always a catch in these supposedly stamina-free mobile RPGs. Another Eden: The Cat beyond Time and Space bills itself as a JRPG that just happens to be on mobile platforms. But you’d be crazy to think you can just zoom from story point to story point freely. I mean you can, […]
You might look at the dearth of posts on this blog this year and think I’ve quit gaming. Nothing of the sort has happened. It’s just that I’m playing mostly casual browser and gacha games where nothing much happens from day to day. Those games provide a nice dopamine hit when I need it, and […]
Exactly what is say in the title. The point of the “One Hour Review” series is to figure out what a game is about and whether I’ll like it or not. In the case of Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age, this was quite unnecessary. I won’t go so far as to say […]
Notice I didn’t say I finished Octopath Traveler proper, or that I finished “the whole story” or anything like that. When I beat H’aanit’s chapter 4 boss, the credits rolled and I got the option to take her out of the party at that point. So in a sense you could say I did finish […]